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21:38, July 10, 2007 |
China''s quality supervision authorities have blacklisted 14 companies for planning to export substandard food products and banned them from further exports.
The companies were exposed by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (GAQSIQ) on its official website, www.aqsiq.gov.
"They will be banned from exporting food products," Lin Wei, an official with the administration, said here Tuesday.
The substandard products, which included preserved seafood and fruit, were destined to be exported to Japan, Canada, the United States and the European Union, according to the administration.
Some of the products were found to contain additives such as sulphur dioxide in excess of levels set by the importing countries, or were found to be contaminated by harmful bacteria.
A total of 34,400 cases of fake and low-quality food have been cracked by China''s industrial and commercial authorities in the first half of this year, involving goods worth 67.7 million yuan (8.9 million U.S. dollars).
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